Hubert's aerogel page

Photo taken at JPL by Robert M. Brown

On this page I keep references to aerogel. If you know of existing links, or new documents that could go on this page, let me know at hubert@lanl.gov.

A lot of this info I have not yet typed in, but I will do so as soon as someone bugs me.

• Aerogel.org, a new site (2009) with the aim to be a comprehensive site about aerogel - check it out
• My list of aerogel suppliers
  
• How to make your own!
  
• Aerogel machining at LANL
• NA44 note 218 H.van Hecke and D.Fields: The Aerogel Cherenkov Trigger Counter; Simulations an measurements on aerogel for imaging Cerenkov applications.
• Carbon aerogel used in desalinization
• aerogel production in zero gravity
• sixth international symposium on aerogels, october 2000
• The University of Virginia's aerogel research website.
  
• James Oyang's homepage
  
• 'the aerogel page' at Princeton.
  
• 2000 International Symposium on Aerogels
• Use of aerogels in metal casting and soldification research, and an updated link.
• The Sol-Gel Gateway
• Aerogel as a microchip electrical insulator
• An aerogel jacket! here, and in an article in Fortune
• KEDR a'gel counter. With wavelenght shifter readout.
• Belle Collaboration PID group
  
• Belle paper on radiation damage to aerogel (21 pages postscript)
  
• LBL Microstructured Materials Group HomePage
  
• LLNL Industrial Partnership advertisement
  
• NIKHEF BigBite spectrometer
  
• IM*X experiment
  
• STARDUST experiment (hypervelocity patricle capture)
  
• Particle track picture in aerogel from EURECA
• JURAMA spectrometer
  
• LHC-B letter of intent (aug 95)
  
• SKS spectrometer
  
• The STARDUST mission
  
• Stardust launch Jan 99
• JPL public information office advertisement
  
• the BELLE Aerogel Cherenkov Counter Group Home Page
  
• LBL promo page on agel as an insulator
  
• CEBAF Hall A spectrometers (follow link to 'detectors')
  
• A history of agel research at LBL
  
• Pathfinder: Silica Aerogel Translucent Insulation
  
• The Happy, Happy Aerogel Detector (CEBAF hall C SOS agel det.)
  
• Aerogel: Energy-Efficient Material for Buildings (LBL)
  
• Solar Decathlon features translucent walls from Virginia Polytech
• Silica Aerogels - Pore Structure
  
• theory and experiments on superfluid 3He in aerogel

References on aerogel and light scattering:

• 'Bulk and surface light scattering from transparent silica aerogel'
  W. J.Platzer and M.Bergkvist
  Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 31 (1993) 243-251
  
  
• 'Scattering of visible light from silica aerogels'
  A.Beck, R.Caps and J.Fricke
  J. Phys D: Appl. Phys. 22 (1989) 730-734
  
  
• 'Optical investigations of silica aerogels'
  P.Wang, W. Korner, A.Emmerling, A.Beck, J.Kuhn anf J. Fricke
  J. of non-crystalline solids 145 (1992) 141-145
  
  
• 'Light scattering for structural investigation of silica aerogels and alcogels'
  A.Beck, O.Gelsen, P.Wang and J.Fricke
  Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on aerogels (ISA2),
  Revue de physique appliquee, colloque C4, supplement au Journal de Physique 4, vol 24 (1989) 203.
  
• 'Scattering from microrough surfaces: comparison of theory and experiment'
  Y.Wang and W.L.Wolfe
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. vol.73, no.11 (1983) 1596.
  

Literature references:

• Use of aerogel for imaging Cherenkov counters. NIM A349 (1994) 431.
  
• nim 195 (1982) 491-503 old paper on making aerogel
  
• popular science feb 93. about all the uses of aerogel
  
• science news 138, pg 316 aerogels, including new organic ones
  
• proc. of the intern. symposium on aergels, sep 30-oct2,1991, wurzburg,germany this is by arlon Hunt on the new method for making aerogels. It has transmission measurenments of extremely good stuff in it.
  
• ieee transactions on nucl science, vol NS-27, no 1, feb 1980 early article on a'gel for cherenkov application.
  
• chemical processing of advanced materials, l.l.Hench and J.K.West, editors, isbn 0-471-54201-6. 1992 John Wiley and SOnls, Ltd. this is written by Larry Hrubesh, about how to make the new aerogel.
  
• aerogels. proceedings edited by j. Fricke. Springer-verlag. In this there is an article by Hunt on making the new a'gel for windows.
  
• nim 225 (1984) 313. on the a'gel detector of the EHS experiment
  
• Nim 154 (1978) 253 test of a'gel counter
  
• journal of non-crystalline solids 145 (1992) 44. Hrubesh and Tillotson on making the new a'gel.
  
• J. Am.Ceram. Soc 75[8] 2027 (1992) This is an excellent review article on a'gel history, production and applications. written by Jochen Fricke and Andreas Emmerling, U. of Wurzburg, Germany.
  
• talk by oyang on r&d for the slac b-factory. at the DPF meeting in Batavia, Nov 10-14, 1992
  
• Internal writeup by Takuya Umeda, Hiroshima U. on a a'gel counter for pi-d reaction experiment.
  
• Int. workshop on b-factories. KEK, japan Nov 17-20, 1992 talk by I. Adachi/KEK on r&d on the kek b-factory a'gel counter
  
• use of a'gel for imaging cherenkov applications, Nim , in press By me and Doug Fields.
  
• refs: QC1.J68 (1989) no.C4 c.1 [2nd intnl. symp on aerogels, Montpellier] QD549.A255 (1986) c.1 Aerogels.[1st intnl...] 535 D63L3 v.2 c.1 Light R.W.Ditchburn
  
• nim 225 (1984) 313
  
• nim 154 (1978) 253
  
• nim 177 (1980) 337
  
• nim 192 (1982) 209
  
• nim 224 (1984) 110
  
• nim 225 (1984) 313
  
• nim 228 (1985) 314
  
• nim a248 (1986) 118
  
• nim a248 (1986) 110
  
• nim a333 (1993) 413
  
• nim a315 (1992) 517
  
• nim a272 (1988) 660
  

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